Serpentine Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Intimacies: Self (with Olivia Laing, Agnès Varda, Luchita Hurtado, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Axel Kacoutié)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As our journey through intimacy draws to a close, it's time to look inward and reflect on how we can get closer to ourselves. We're considering ideas ...
Intimacies: Surroundings (with Lina Ghotmeh, Black Power Naps & Jakob Kudsk Steensen)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode opens up to consider intimacy with the world around us. Today, many of us feel – and are – disconnected from place, and not everyone ...
Intimacies: Desire (with Brontez Purnell, Tiona Nekkia McClodden & Pixy Liao)
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We now move from a space of fear into desire – asking how art can be a space to express, explore and experience the supposedly private sphere of sex...
Intimacies: Fear (with Tomás Saraceno, P. Staff & Lamin Fofana)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes the things we fear live as intimately within us as the things we love. These fears are rarely distant from us: we are sometimes closely impl...
Intimacies: Family (with Hetain Patel, Angelo Madsen Minax & Helen Cammock)
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following strangers, we turn to the people our lives are first entangled with: our families. Family is a contested and challenging space for some, whi...
Intimacies: Strangers (with Adrian Piper, Scottee & Cecilia Vicuña)
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We start our journey into intimacy by considering our interactions with strangers. The unexpected crossing of paths between people who have no knowled...
Intimacies: Trailer
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This new series of Serpentine Podcast explores the complexities of closeness. Released weekly from 22 August 2023, Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies asks...
REWORLDING: Reflecting
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What changes can we carry forward from our REWORLDING journey – and how has it changed us? In this bonus episode, our host Gaylene Gould shares per...
REWORLDING: Relating
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can relationships transform us, and our world? The final episode of the series explores how artists are actively collaborating with communities to...
REWORLDING: Regenerating
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we co-create our world with other species, and how are artists working with these beings in response to ecological instability? This episode of...
REWORLDING: Replaying
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can the way we play change the way we live? How are creativity, collaboration, and change adaptation related, and why do these activities help peo...
REWORLDING: Remembering
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can looking back alter what we wish for the future? In this episode, artists and researchers discuss how they question accepted histories, and how...
REWORLDING: Reimagining
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can fiction remake reality? In the first episode of REWORLDING, we hear from artists, musicians and writers who use dreaming and imagination to remake...
REWORLDING: Trailer
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is a world, and how do we begin to reshape it? Introducing REWORLDING – a new Serpentine Podcast series, hosted by Gaylene Gould. The podcast f...
Sound Gallery: Crystals of this Social Substance by Jay Bernard
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Jay Bernard's Crystals of this Social Substance, we hear eight young people from South London discuss money in a conversation that circulates aroun...
Sound Gallery: Atlantic Railton by Ain Bailey
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Reflecting on Brixton's sites of community care and resistance, Ain Bailey's Atlantic Railton brings together a series of intimate conversations and s...
Sound Gallery: Breathtaking: On Black Beauty and Other Necessary Indeterminacies by Torkwase Dyson
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this work by Torkwase Dyson, an impactful collage of sound embodies breathing in relation to the environment, the politics of space, and the rights...
Sound Gallery: IN A GARDEN by Brian Eno
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rooted in thinking about the landscape around Serpentine, Brian Eno's IN A GARDEN creates a generative space through layered sound. This audio commiss...
Back to Earth: Moss Matters
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Moss Matters is a sound work devised by students of the Royal College of Art's School of Architecture studio ADS3, on the occasion of Serpentine's Bac...
Playtesting: Co-Creation
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can gaming and virtual world-building help us design better cultural architecture and infrastructures? What does the metaverse show us about commu...
Playtesting: Counter-Archives
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'Justice is an ongoing methodology' - Ruha Benjamin. What can digital assets and datasets do for Black liberation and social justice? From broken ...
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Maya Lin
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentin...
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Bhanu Kapil
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentin...
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Cauleen Smith
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentin...
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Nahum
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentin...
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Tomás Saraceno
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentin...
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Introduction
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited b...
On Practice: Walking
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Practice: Walking asks how does walking shape our experience of the city? How can it be used as a tool for resistance and change? Featuring artist ...
On Practice: Listening
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Practice: Listening asks: How can listening form a space of political encounter? What is the difference between listening and hearing? How do other...
On Practice: Cooking
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Practice: Cooking asks how cooking can bring people together and provide nourishment and care? What are the ways that cooking together can open up ...
General Ecology: The Story of the Understory of the Understory
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are earth, land, soil, ground and dirt? Join us in that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, where diverse...
A Gift for the Season: tarax'sup?
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Instead, let's consider the dandelion achene. The flower kingdom's lil grey-haired punk." (Sophia Al-Maria) Released on the Winter Equinox, 21 Dece...
Presents: Future Ecologies: On Fire – Part 3 "In the Wobble"
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"In the Wobble" On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpen...
Presents: Future Ecologies: On Fire – Part 2 "Combustible Communities"
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Combustible Communities"On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understo...
Presents: Future Ecologies: On Fire – Part 1 "Camas, Cores, and Spores"
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Camas, Cores, and Spores"On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Underst...
Back to Earth: Can I Get Back To You?
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back to Earth: Can I Get Back To You? The concluding episode of this podcast season examines the past, present and future of the Back to Earth project...
Back to Earth: Queer Currents
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is queer ecology? How do queer theory and artistic practice inform environmental activism and climate justice? How can we think decolonisation an...
Back to Earth: Standing with the Forest
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous rights, care of biodiversity, and ecological, multispecies worldviews are inextricably connected. Today's episode features perspectives fro...
Back to Earth: Systems and Sprouts
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are artists using technologies to imagine alternate realities, new alien languages and manipulate time? How can artists make the invisible visible...
Back to Earth: Tracing the Roots
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does design look like when it begins from a position of ecological responsibility? What does designing with and for the non-human mean? Host Vic...
Back to Earth: By Leaves We Listen
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can botanical knowledge support practices of ecological and personal healing? In episode 4: By Leaves We Listen, hosts Victoria Sin and Lucia Piet...
General Ecology: We Make Tomorrow
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are artists' roles in knowing or making tomorrow? What are alternative ways of knowing our planet? Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti return to t...
Back to Earth: Drops Make an Ocean
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 3, hosts Victoria Sin & Lucia Pietroiusti dive into one of the core ecological principles of Back to Earth: we are all interconnected, smal...
Back to Earth: Sowing the Seeds
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are artists developing campaigns for the Earth? How can an artwork reconnect us with the environment? Can we "feel" the speed of climate change, o...
Back to Earth: How Do We Get There?
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can art respond to the climate emergency? How can society collectively self-transform? How can an arts institution contribute to discourse around ...
General Ecology: With Plants
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Roots move towards water. Leaves grow towards the sun. Plants don't have neurons… Does it matter? How else can they remember, and learn from their e...
General Ecology: Plantsex
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient Greeks used orchids and lettuce to enhance and suppress sexual appetite. Thinking beyond plants as a backdrop or decoration, what do they teac...
Bonus Episode: Rights to the City?
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Curators for Serpentine Projects and Serpentine Education - Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp bring us sounds from their one-day forum at Conway Hall in Lond...
General Ecology: Complex Everything
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What new ecological insights can be gained from thinking of the planet as an organism in itself? As humans, we have a need to simplify our surrounding...
General Ecology: In Our Bodies
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our own bodies, we are outnumbered 9-to-1 by non-human cells. If we as humans need these organisms to function, what exactly do we mean when we thi...
On Work: Algorithmic Superstructures
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How are algorithms shaping the world of work? We team up with IMPAKT Festival to explore how data and public space are interlinked + how sound is shap...
On Work: UBI Etc.
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Marc rapping plus how will political participation look when technology brings about the collapse of capitalism? It's a big one + some big guests...
On Work: Dream Works
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's not just Marcel Proust and Truman Capote who do their best work in bed anymore, now we all do! Beatriz Colomina engages in horizontal thinking an...
On Work: The Work of Art
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ever considered the function of art as an anthropological question? How do you find your identity as an artist? What does it mean to make work as an a...
On Work: Working the Marathon
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You get it, it's all about labour, we make today's episode in one day, scripted, recorded and edited - straight from the Royal Geographic Society + 70...
On Work: Home
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Did we welcome work into the home? Has our existence transformed through this new environment? We teamed up with the Design Museum to think about how ...
On Work: Invisible Labour
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What part of your work are you least valued for? What aspects of your work life are invisible? Do we seek to make them visible or not...what are the i...
On Work: Playbour
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do you work for pleasure, or work to survive? We teamed up with Furtherfield, another gallery in London to discuss Playbour and gamification. Hosts Lu...